EDC 484 Agenda: Class 04: How do I Assess Inquiry?

Learning Goals

• Review, reflect, and plan: Classroom Inquiry
• Share our plans for next week

Due Tonight (By Midnight)

• Post Agenda/HW Grid 3/1 (W)

Activities

• Before class starts: Get Inspired!
  • What Do Teachers Make?
  • The Satisfactions of Teaching
  • Look over our Inquiry Reflections
• Sharing & Brainstorming
  • Use our Meeting Room to record: What have you learned this week?
  • Sketch out next week's plans.
  • Share the high points: one lesson from next week. (Topic, hook, main activity)
• EDC 484 S10 - Assessment Analysis
  • Work in groups to brainstorm:
    • What are the key elements of classroom inquiry?
    • How have you addressed inquiry in your teaching so far?
  • Review elements of Classroom Inquiry from EDC 430
    • Set some goals: Scientific Practices
• Time permitting: Work on the YouTube Scavenger Hunt to think of ways to engage your students on your wikispace.
  • Explore other teachers' wikispaces. What features have they developed to engage students?
    • Example wikispaces:
      • Bergmann Science
      • Global Biology
• Next week: RITES investigations / Pizza Extravaganza???
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Due Saturday (By Midnight) or

• Begin your Assessment Analysis

Reminders